I jumped out of the car and pulled out my phone and took a few crude images to preserve the moment.
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For those who don't know luminarias are:
The glowing brown sacks that adorn walkways, churches and homes each holiday season are called luminarias and date back more than 300 years. The New Mexican tradition began when the Spanish villages along the Rio Grande displayed the unique and easy to make Christmas lanterns, called luminarias to welcome the Christ child into the world. A traditional luminaria is a brown paper bag, which has been folded at the top, filled will a couple cups of sand and a votive candle. - Read More
The strange thing is I have no idea why the luminarias that lined the roadway from one side of town to the other were there. Placing these items out at Christmas time isn't any Louisiana tradition that I know of. I've lived in Lecompte for going on five years and they have never been put out before. It's a real mystery. Even stranger yet just a mysteriously as they appeared that night, the next morning they were all gone. Somebody came along and picked them all up.
As weird as the whole thing was I have to admit that the experience made me extremely happy and a bit homesick for New Mexico.
It's just so mysterious and wonderful that a bit of New Mexico Christmas tradition popped up here in central Louisiana.
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